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Why Harvard Needs International Students

Global challenges demand global experiences

by Fernando M. Reimers

Caliphate of Terror

This year, a group of international terrorists announced its intention to affect an election with the goal of replacing a government that...

Helen Keller

Totally deaf and blind from the age of 19 months, world famous at seven for having learned to read, write, and communicate through the finger...

Designs for the Dance

When impresario Serge Diaghilev launched his Ballets Russes in Paris in 1909, he injected into the tired corpus of European ballet a massive...

Stem-cell Science

Portraits by Stu Rosner The next time you look in a mirror, reflect on this: the face staring back at you is literally not the same one you...

by Jonathan Shaw

Medicare Solutions and Problems

The addition of prescription-drug coverage to Medicare is the first substantial expansion of benefits since the program was enacted nearly 40...

Covering the Uninsured

In any given month last year, 43 million Americans—17 percent of people under age 65—lacked either private health insurance or public...

The Brahmin Rebel

Last year, the publication of his Collected Poems returned Robert Lowell '39 to the center stage of American poetry. From 1946, when he won the...

by Adam Kirsch

Harvard A to Z

(Excerpted from Harvard A to Z, by John T. Bethell, Richard M. Hunt, and Robert Shenton, published this May by Harvard University Press...

by John T. Bethell

Evelyn Baring, Lord Cromer

Thinking himself near death in 1905, Evelyn Baring, the first Lord Cromer, began a series of "Biographical Notes," written partly that...

The Way We Eat Now

Last year, Morgan Spurlock decided to eat all his meals at McDonald's for a month. For 30 straight days, everything he took in—breakfast...

by Craig Lambert